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Integrating Principles and Practices for Healthy Power-Sharing: Creating a Federation of Prosocial Tools for Governing an Ecological Civilization

What if we could unite our efforts to create a learnable set of practices that reliably work to enable cooperation?

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Witch-Hunting: A Lethal Cultural “Virus”?

In the late sixteenth century, the region surrounding the German city of Trier experienced an outbreak of witch-hunting that shocked Europe.1 In the preceding decades, witch trials had already become...

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By Maarten Boudry In Philosophy

Are Some False Beliefs Good For You?

Suppose you could come clean with yourself and have truthful beliefs about everything you care about: the universe, your own self, and your loved ones. Is this something we should want?

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Psychology

The Many Faces of Cognitive Immunology

Viewing minds through the lens of cognitive immunology can reveal antidotes to misinformation, disinformation, and…

Stephan Lewandowsky
January 19, 2023

History Webinar

Facing the Dark History of Evolutionary Science: The Role of the Individual in Learning How to Evolve on Purpose

In this talk, I will explain the key but largely unknown scientific error made by…

David Sloan Wilson
January 15, 2023

Psychology

Evolving My View on Mental Immunity

After initially accepting the metaphor of mental immunity as a useful gift from a cherished…

Ed Gibney
January 12, 2023

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Politics

Socialism, Capitalism, and the Third Way of National Governance: A Conversation with Geoffrey Hodgson

The failure of laissez-faire and centralized planning, revealing the need for the Third Way of…

Geoffrey Hodgson, David Sloan Wilson
July 21, 2022

Economy History Philosophy Politics

Pragmatism as the Third Way of Entrepreneurship: A Conversation with Trygve Throntveit

Positive systemic change must be the target of selection. Alternative social practices must be oriented…

Trygve Throntveit, David Sloan Wilson
July 14, 2022

Commentaries

Why We Experiment

Words such as “science” and “experiment” mean different things to different people. Here is what…

David Sloan Wilson, Paul Atkins
July 7, 2022

Business Culture Economy

Evolution, Complexity, and the Third Way of Entrepreneurship

A modern understanding of human cultural evolution reveals the conventional laissez-faire view of entrepreneurship as…

David Sloan Wilson
June 30, 2022

Politics Race

Decolonizing Science and the Bias Against Non-Native English Speakers

Allow me to set some context first. I am a white, straight (happily married), male…

Ian MacGregor-Fors
June 22, 2022

Biology

Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection: 8. Anatomy of a Model

Group selection was decisively rejected on theoretical grounds, according to the patriotic history of individual…

David Sloan Wilson
June 16, 2022

Philosophy

The Vienna Circle and Pragmatist Clubs: Variations to Select from for Evolutionary Philosophy

What’s needed is a modern framework for completing the Darwinian revolution for philosophy and all other…

David Sloan Wilson, Ed Gibney, Andy Norman
June 7, 2022

Politics PROSOCIAL

Reclaiming Our Common Ground of Being Human (Part 3 of 3)

Part 3: Reclaiming the Commons (Part 1 here - Part 2 here) Undertaking the work of…

Robert Styles, Paul Atkins, Exmond E. DeCruz
May 30, 2022

Biology

Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection: 7. If You Make A Mess, Should You Clean It Up?

The only way to recover the simplicity is by cleaning up the mess that was…

David Sloan Wilson
May 20, 2022

Law Politics Race

On Decolonizing the Law: Views from a South African Legal Scholar

Trisos, Auerbach and Katti recently published a manuscript titled “Decoloniality and anti-oppressive practices for a…

Caiphas Brews Soyapi
May 18, 2022

Gender Politics Race

Decolonizing Science Means Taking Indigenous Knowledge Seriously

In their article, Decoloniality and Anti-oppressive Practices for a More Ethical Ecology, Trisos, Auerbach, and…

Dina Lupin
May 3, 2022

Biology

Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection: 6. Individualism

Individualism is the mistaken belief that individuals are somehow a privileged level of the biological…

David Sloan Wilson
April 26, 2022

Politics PROSOCIAL

Reclaiming Our Common Ground of Being Human (Part 2 of 3)

Capitalism, neoliberalism, and state communism have intensified inequalities and increased global impoverishment. How can we…

Robert Styles, Paul Atkins, Exmond E. DeCruz
April 21, 2022

Biology

Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection: 5. The Patriotic History of Individual Selection Theory

One reason that I don't spend a lot of time bashing religion is that there…

David Sloan Wilson
April 18, 2022

Politics PROSOCIAL

Reclaiming Our Common Ground of Being Human (Part 1 of 3)

Capitalism, neoliberalism, and state communism have intensified inequalities and increased global impoverishment. How can we…

Robert Styles, Paul Atkins, Exmond E. DeCruz
April 14, 2022

Environment Politics

What Does Decolonization Mean for Conservation?

Humans are naturally prosocial. But we need to address our underlying power structures and rethink…

Subhashini Krishnan, Sutirtha Lahiri
April 11, 2022

Biology Culture Psychology

Evaluating Narratives of Conscious Evolution

Download this article as a PDF version. The idea that we can consciously evolve our…

David Sloan Wilson
April 4, 2022

Environment Politics

If Colonialism in Africa is Dead, Would That Make Forest Conservation its Ghost?

Policies and abusive practices against local people in Africa mirror the colonial experiences of their…

Emmanuel Nuesiri
March 28, 2022

Environment

Dealing with Disproportionality in Climate Change Policymaking

How can we leverage what we know to attenuate and adapt to climate change catastrophes?

Christopher M. Weible
March 21, 2022

PROSOCIAL

Constructing Prosocial Environments: The Parable of the Turtle

Nearly every group on earth can benefit from implementing the Core Design Principles and understanding…

David Sloan Wilson
March 16, 2022

Biology

Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection: 4. The Great Reckoning

By the 1960s, everything that evolved by natural selection was interpreted as a variety of…

David Sloan Wilson
March 9, 2022

PROSOCIAL

Why is Talking About Power Important?

When we use power unskillfully, we decrease the likelihood of creating groups that work for…

Paul Atkins
March 2, 2022

Biology

Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection: 3. Naïve Group Selectionism

Pre-Darwinian notions did not come to an abrupt halt with the advent of Darwin's theory.…

David Sloan Wilson
February 24, 2022

Opportunities

Conscious Cultural Evolution Takes Root in Latin America

A new project in Latin America draws upon an unexpected source of insight: Darwin’s theory…

David Sloan Wilson
February 21, 2022

Biology Politics

What Will It Take To Decolonize Ecology?

The field of "western" Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) started centuries ago when European naturalists,…

Adriana Romero-Olivares, Prakash Kashwan
February 17, 2022

Biology

Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection: 2. The Original Problem

Darwin observed that groups of prosocial individuals will survive and reproduce better than groups of…

David Sloan Wilson
February 15, 2022

PROSOCIAL

Introducing the Prosocial Commons

Prosocial World is excited to introduce a new experimental support and engagement group called the…

David Sloan Wilson
February 12, 2022

Environment Politics

The Solution To Climate Change Is To Talk About Climate Change

Maintaining optimism in the face of what is an overwhelming climate crisis is absolutely necessary,…

Rebecca Huntley
February 10, 2022

Biology

Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection: 1. Why It Is Needed

What happens when science doesn't work as it should? Such is the case for the…

David Sloan Wilson
February 8, 2022

Biology

Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection

A prologue for the Twelfth Anniversary Edition.

David Sloan Wilson
February 8, 2022

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